Samudra Hindia
| Lima samudra donya |
Samudra Hindia, Samudra Indonesia atawa Samudra India kuwe kumpulan banyu paling gedhe kaping telu nang donya, meliputi sekitar 20% permukaan banyu Bumi. Nang sisi lor dibatesi nang Asia bagian kidul; sisi kulon nang Jazirah Arabia lan Afrika; sisi wetan nang Semenanjung Malaya, Sumatera, Jawa, Kepulauan Sunda Kecil, lan Australia; sisi kidul nang Antartika. Samudra kiye dipisahna karo Samudra Atlantik nang 20° wetan meridian, lan karo Samudra Pasifik nang 147° wetan meridian. Samudra Hindia atawa Samudra India kuwe siji-sijine samudra sing nggunakna jeneng negara yakuwe India[1].
Data
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Area
- total: 68.556 juta km²
- segara: termasuk Segara Andaman, Segara Arab, Teluk Bengal, Great Australian Bight, Teluk Aden, Teluk Oman, Saluran Mozambique, Teluk Persia, Segara Abang, Selat Malaka, lan liya-liyane.
Dawane Pantai: 66.526 km
Titik ketinggian:
- titik paling jero: Palung Jawa -7.258 m
- titik paling cethek: permukaan laut 0 m
Pelabuhan: Calcutta (India), Chennai (Madras; India), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Durban (Afrika Selatan), Jakarta (Indonesia), Karachi (Pakistan), Fremantle (Australia), Mumbai (Bombay; India), Teluk Richards (Afrika Selatan)
Daftar pustaka
[sunting | besut sumber]- Braun, D., The Indian Ocean (1983)
- Chandra, S., ed., The Indian Ocean (1987);
- Chaudhuri, K. N., Trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean (1985);
- Cousteau, Jacques-Yves, and Diole, Philippe, Life and Death in a Coral Sea (1971);
- Cubitt, Gerald, Islands of the Indian Ocean (1975);
- Das Gupta, A., and Pearson, M.N., India and the Indian Ocean (1987);
- Dowdy, W. L., and Trood, R., eds., The Indian Ocean (1985);
- Kerr, A., ed., Resources and Development in the Indian Ocean Region (1981);
- Nairn, A. E., and Stehli, F. G., eds., The Ocean Basins and Margins, Vol. 6: The Indian Ocean (1982);
- Ostheimer, John M., ed., The Politics of the Western Indian Ocean Islands (1975);
- Toussaint, Auguste, The History of the Indian Ocean, trans. by June Guicharnaud (1966).
